The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-12-14
cLEvELAND's MESSAGE.
Comment OF Some of the Loading South
ern Papers on the Document.

Comment OF Some of the Loading South
ern Papers on the Document.
NEW YORK, December THE following
editorials from some OF the leading Jour-
mails in the South are of interest as show
ing how that section views the Presidents
plan for reducing the revenue:
The Charleston, S. c., News and Courier
says: THE President exposes with cruel
courtesy every fallacv of the protective
comprehensive exposition of the weakness
and inherent inequality OF the protective
system has not been given to the public.
Through il all, moreover, there runs vein
of kindly sympathy and patriotic consld-
Grafton. The manufacturer or the work
ing man who reads this message must be
callous and suspicious indeed, IL he is not
impressed by 1T with the abiding conviction
that q rea0justment OF the tariff, which
should be committed to the President IL
that were practicable, would leave the
workingman in better position than that
which he now holds, would increase the
general prosperity of manufacturers and
the persons whom they employ in opening
to Americans the markets of the world,
andwould at the same time by diminish
ing the burdens and restraints upon them
augment the comfort Of every man, woman
and child in the land"
The New Orleans Times-Democrat says:
/ THE message sent yesterday by the Presi-
dent to Congress is unique. It is first of
all, the shortest Presidential message ever
sell, aIG Is confined wholly to a single
sui jsct-the tariff. The President declares
himself, in no uncertain terms, revenue
7 former and opposed to protection pure
a d simple. He would have Congress leave
t lie int rDal revenue alone and concentrate
i self on the work of reducing the tariff.
We do not agree with the President in re
gsrd to the non-reduction of the tobacco
sx. Il Is true that tobacco is not neces-
sity, but the tax is Troublesome and bur.
densome to the agricultural producer, and
the cost OF its collection is considerable"
The Atlanta Constitution says: The
message of the President concerns itself
solely with the tariff question, aud he dis.
uses il almost exclusively form the
yandpoint of Bre'r Bill Morrison, of Hit
OILS, who was left at home by his esteemed
constituents on account of his extreme
Jews. At the same time the President
oes not 90 as far as Bre'r Bill Morrison.
lie pauses in the lesson which he gives to
Congress TO refer to the fact that the Dem
ocratic platform suggests protection for
American industries and American labor.
There is one fact, however. to which Mr..
Cleveland fails to call attention-namely,
that the promises of the Democratic plat
form can be carried out by the repeal of the
internal revenue law, which was framed 80
suit en- emergency long since passed, and
which in its operation, is odious and IN
Just. The repeal OF this law would so ef-
fectually do away with the surplus that
Congress would be compelled te revise the
tariff with such protection as the Chicago
platform calls for, but the free traders are
opposed to this repeal for the reason that
while the revenue tax is levied any at
tempt to reduce the tariff will merely re-
suit in increasing the surplus, and they
will therefore have an excuse for putting
their free trade notions into effect to some
extent. That man of practical common
sense like Cleveland should walk into such
a trap is surprising, but he has not walked
in without protest as his reference to the
Chicago platform shows"